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?be Xexin-gton (Sascttc____ lftJi ___ ,, LEXINGTON. VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1912 SLOO PER YEARLEGISLATURE ADJOURNEDWITH LITTLE WORK DONEIMany Bills of State-Wide ImportFailed of PassaeeTiie General Assembly adjournedlast Saturday afternoon. The fol?lowing summary of the sesion'swork was published in Sunday'sRichmond Times-Dispatch:Taxes on the rolling stock ofsteam railroads will, after 1912, bedivided, 25 per cent. going to thecities which have the home officesand the remainder homo; dividedamong the cities and countiesthrough which they rim.All convicts regarded as safe towork on the public roads will beemployed on highway constructionafter the expiration of the contractwith the Thacher Company on MayI, 1918. The remainder, not to excoed 500, will L>*? put to work on anew contract.To the people of Virginia is rrferred the amendment- to the Const!**tu tion permUting ol tl treasurersand commissioners of tho revenuetj succeed themselves, and theamendment permitting toe GeneralA*.Noin nly to grant, to cities a com?mission form of government.The counties of Halifax and Char?lotte aro tiiKen fruin the "Sixth Con?gressional District anti placed inthe (fifth.A commission is created to cumpromis.- back taxes with the Richmond, Fredericks bu rr* and PotomacRailroad, aud to guard a merger un?der which the road is permittod toamend its charter hy surrenderingits exemption from taxation and be?ing relieved of its special buniol raA colony for feeble-minded,womenof child-bearing ago is establishedat the farm for epileptics nearLynchburg.Two plants for tho grinding oflimestone will be established by theState, the product to be sold Ufarmers for tho improvement of landThe killing of robins in Virginiais prohibited at any season.Primary elections are put underthe jurisdiction of the courts as tcpunishments for violations, the expenses of candidates are limitedcounties and cities pay the costs,and paid advertising matter must biso marked.A Bureau of Vital Statistics iiestablished for the protection of thipublic, health and of hoirship oestates.Two United States Senators wenelected.Unfinished business includes ta:reform, legislative redistrictingmodification of the fee system, amratification or rejection of the Fedetal income tax. Rejected propositioninclude woman suffrage, a woman'college, a liquor referendum, anadoption of the principles of the icitiitive, the referendum and the rtcall.Bills of general interest whicdied on calendars were:Providing a State Board of Optvcmetry, the Clialkley and Robertsopure election bills, the Adams purpaint bill, the Harwood bills for thconsolidation of reformatories, tlabolition of the Governor's statf, tlnepotism bill,the district poorhousbills, the White bills designeiabolish the pleading of contributoinegligence, the Milstead investmecompany bill, the Byrd child laband Cox safetv appliance bills, tStebbins uniform bills of ladiimeasure, the Stephenson antigaibling bill, the Fit/.hug li unlit reat ibill, the Banks antitrading statbill, the Creamer bill limiting thours of labor of street car eiployes, the Walton bill to proviifor the election of school trust?by a vote of the people, the Waltand O'.ivor bill to repeal the looption compulsory school attedance law, the water pollution bilthe Hannan safety match bill, tThrockmorton milk bill, the conttutionai ameudment permittielection of school superintendeby tho people, and the game pruttion bill._James Elliott, a negro, and a Imer slave, who, before the C:War, escaped North by the "Undground Railroad," is dead athome at Bingham pion. N. Y., ni101 years. He amassed a fortby dealing in rs*..1 estate..IFE AND SERVICESOF JQHNRIIFF.SR.'resident of Old County Court ofJustices of PeaceVIAN OF STERLING CHARACTERLived and Died in This CommunityRespected by All(Remarks of Frank T. C,la*>K<i\v in prrscntinn[he portrait ol John Kurt Sr .to tha- Board ol Suparviaatl la tb* I ."tirthouse, LcunKlon. Va..M.nih |, lg: ? IMr. Chairman:-? A people whodo not treasure in memory the livesof their good and faithful de'ad dcnot deserve, and rarely receive, theloyal affection of those why followthem.The man, whoso portrait I havethe honor to present to yon, was agood man, a useful man, und a prom?inent citizen in tho annals of Hockbridge county.Wo are told if a canal were cutconnecting t.ie Athabasca and Saskatf hu.van Rivera, and another conaecting the Red River of the Northanel the Mississippi, an Indianmight enter the. month of the Mnekantin from the Artic Ocean and rowfrom these latitudes of ice down tuthe Gulf of Mexico* the regions ofeternal summer!So, likewise, the life John Ruff,Sr., which began in Revolutionarytimes and extended down nearly tethe Civil War, constitutes a bridgtSpanning the grea, chasm betweenour,own time and the liberty-maWinjjepoch ejf the American Revolution.Mr. Rofl was born April 5, 1783,and eli ed September 9, 1856, in bisTt'.th ycr. a typical Scotch-Irishmanas shown so plainly by th.strong lineaments of his counteBanca in this portrait. He nan Iprnaperotia, thrifty farmer, living ;short distance south of lexingtonIle left a considerable estate to hifamily ?t his death. Tho late JudgWilliam McLaughlin was one of hioxectors.Mr. Kuli was. through his lonilife, an active, useful member of thicommunity, and whilst I have at tndisposal limited data ns ttl eie-tailshall mention two facts which spea'volumes to shtiw bis character, us<fulness and influence in the oomaal!nity.f He w;is a prominent member cthe Methodist Episcopal ChnrclSouth. In the Valley Star of Seitember 13, 1858, are published resilotions, adoDted then recently by tilexington Circuit of the VirginConference, expressing their hisestimate, of his ^reat worth. In Iwords they record theil gratitude fihis useful life; for his prudent cousel; for his ellicient action; for hconstant charity, and for his brigland Christian example in the vr iou fl relations of life. In oneof tlclosing paragraphs he is deseribas "an affectionate husband,honored pareut, a kind neighbor,dignified gentleman, a valuable aiintluential member."And, again, it appears from tpublic records of the county tlfor over 15 years he was a menahof the County Court, and duringto think, a considerable part of tlry time, the honored president of tlnt' Honorable Court. I use the wcor "Honorable" in this connection th*3 in the formal sense alone, for it?U a fact that our old County Coucomposed *of the county justica% count, y gentlemen of ebano!nP high standing end influence, v**e indeed a remarkable institution.n' held, and justly held, high plact*e the affections of our people. Trl0S it was composed of men goner;on not learned in the law, but. metca; clear, strong minds, familiar win" affairs and of incorruptible int's- rity. They undertook to dec"e what was the very right of**" cause without giving technical in**f sons.?*?*?? Remarkable as it may seem itee" been often assertod (and so far iknow never successfully deni*or- that of all the decisions of theivil County Courts of Virginia wiler- were appealed to what was then <Iii* ed the Superior Court, and fromjed latter to the Supreme Court ofuuc peela ot the State, though the inmeaiate court reversed sundrySomething Nev/Will Be FoundWhen NaturalResources FailByJAMES r-K-HOOLCRAFT SHERMAN.Vice President of thc United States? American PrsiBaAssociation.RE is the BEST CONSERVATIONIST who utilizes theforces of tho air and all the hidden forces of tho earth fortho advancement of mankind and turn.-* these forces intocomforts and conveniences and makes them supply necessi?ties and in other ways lighten the burdens of this generation.I believe that each new generation is equal to the task of discovering SOME *N'EW THING to take the place of toy exhausted nat?ural resources. I am willing to give the COMING GENERATIONcredit for being as smart as we are. I believe that they will find fuel.It maj be that they will invent appliances to squeeze out of the airthe thing tbat will light and heat the homes.How Delegates and Senators VotedOn Enabling ActFollowing is the vote on the En?abling Act in the General Assemblyof Virginia, which provided for anexpression of the people on State?wide prohibition.Tbe House of Delegates voted onthe measure Febrjary 22nd and thetemperance people won by the voteof t>2 to 30, as follows:Ayes?Adams, Anderson, Bain,Baker of Chesterfield, Baker ofLouisa. Bargain in. Hell, Borden,Bowman, Brewer, Brown of Dan?ville. Book, Burt, Coleman of Spotsylvania. Daniel, Earman, Evans,. Ewing, Fitzhugh. Flanagan. Fulton,. (Jrant. Gregory, Harvey, Ivey, Jen. nings, Jordan. Kent, Kinsey, Love.v bunston!. Malbon, Martin, Massey.Meetze. Moore. Moseley, Mustard, Norris, Page. Radford, Rakes, Kew,r. j Roberts of Washington, Robertson,Rolston, Row, Sinivli.Spessard.Stebbins. Stephenson of Bath, Stephenson of James Cit*/, Stratton. Tale,Throckmorton, Walton, WeaverWhite of Albemarle, Willeroy, Wilbarns, Wissler and the Speaker?62Noes?Banks, Browning. Christian. Coleman of Norfolk, CoxCreamer. Curtis. Gilliam, HarwoodHouston. Howerton. Kemper, Milstead, Moncuie, Montague, Old, Ol:ver. Parker. Peek, Roberts of Meeklenburg, Sutphin, Taylor, Templeton, Terrell, Tiffany, Utz. WaitsWTebb. White of Rockbridge, amWise?30.Paired ?Clarke with RutherfoorciChalkley with Peyton. Tabb witRichardson, Brown of Westmoreland, with Land. In each ease thfirst-named would have voted "aye.The bill reached a vote in thSenate March 2nd, and the tempe]ance people lost by the vote of 23 t15, as follows:Ayes?Senators Bowers. Broola Catroc, Drewry, Early, Fletche[,(* Folkes. Garrett, Harmin, Harj Hobbs. Holt, Lesner. Massie, Mnhe ! cure, Montague, Parr, Paul, Risi:,at I Sowder, Thornton, Watkins, We,er jdenburg?23.1 j Noes?Senators Blanks. Crocketiat Cummings, Edmonson, Featherstolat Gayle,Gravatt, Mapp.Royall, Saar.,rf* ers, Smith, Tavenner. Tucker, Wal10l er, West?15.is I Paired?Rinehart, for bill, wi,.* Echols, against it.es, -er. cisions, yet not in a single case dms the Supreme Court sustain the !*?lt perior Court of Law and Chance? in in so doing, but in every installue, reversed the Superior Court ailly affirmed the original decisions of tn of County Court,ith To belong to that court waseg-' small hourn . To be its presideide ! was to hold the most prominent ainfluential position in the county.1 beg, Mr. Chairman, to presito your hon. ruble body the portrof a president of that bonorab'e ?,s I honored tribunal, the Peoplid), ; Court, tho old County Ctnrtold I Rockbridge; i his splendid porndch I and excellent likeness of a strotall-1 and good, and useful iran, Jttho J Ruff, Sr , n? radorv tin* willis of llAp- | tho Courthouse of the ci eat histtor-1 county of R ickbndge, whicde- loved and served so wellntherea?lmsSam Houston's Portrait Presented toVirginiaIn the Virginia House of Dele?gates Saturday night. March :*ll'l-, Congressman Jack Heall, o'the Fifth Texas district, presentedon behalf of the State of Texas tuthe State of Virginia an oil portraitt of General Sam Houston."We tender you tonight." saieiMr. Heall, "a portrait of this simplehut majestic man, this soldier whobled for the two republics, thisorator, statesman and patriot, andwe declare to you that tlie deeds In?wrought entitled him to live in ourhearts as a great Texan, in yours asa great Virginian and in the heartsof all mankind as a great Ameri?can."Accepting the portrait, formerAttorney General William A. Acj derson of Rockbridge, GeneraHouston's native county, said:"On behalf of the authorities oVirginia. 1 make giateful acknow?ledgment of the gracious act oTexas in this gift of the portrait oa sot; of Virginia, who after a chequered career of gallant ana distinguished military and civic service as soldier, citizen, representative in Congress, attorney generaand Governor of Texas, became iilustrious as the savior and ch iearchitect of the republic and thState of Texas."Delegate Hugh A. White of Roc!bridge, was chairman of the joinreceptiem committeeTaft and RooseveltWhether considered from the | political or the human standpoint, ttcauses wiiii'ti have broken up tlfrieu.i-,l,ip of T*?!l anti la.lose ere. t alinstrcutive. Just as the artilici.light oi the stage creates a misleacing glamour around the actors. :the calcium of publicity conceasome traits of character ami eaggerates others in public meLet us look at Taft aud Roosvelt in the dry white ligof everyday. If we do that, itseen at once that the reasons whiihave made Roosevelt and Taft euuiies are like those which dost tethousands of friendships in pr ivalife. Tlie difference is in size, ckind. The Taft K osevelt hatrseems to bc on a bigger seale thtbe mutual dislike of Smith aJones, simply because RoosCTiand Taft deal with large affairs, atheir repulsion toward each otl;has split a political party.But any friendship basedsuch grounds as that of Rooscvand Taft must go to the sinaiRoosevelt thought, probably scerely.that he valued Taft for Tafself. Really he val nod Taft onlya tool. Taft doubtless supposedad ni net! Roosevelt for Re ie >.*>?.< ve-isake. In point of fact he ad milRoosevelt as the political creatorTaft. ? Noitiun K. Mack in NatioMonthly.thThs intnperntera inside a silkon a man's head is from 15 ttldegrees higher than on the outsiaccording toa French inventignlThe world s demand for nwtpict?rea ne>?v calls for trie usenearly 55,000 miles cf hims a yeoEN. SAM HOUSTON'SREMARKABLE CAREERJorn in Rockbridge Near TimberRidge Church)NLY PRESIDENT OF TEXAS.;jovernor of States of Tennessee andTexas{AOdrmsmmt \v e; McDowella*********** thr^.rlrait atti**. Sam Mouse.ni e.. the Board f Suptr*keett m itu: Cowtthoasc, Utaiastaa, ViMarch i. wi.-..(Concludeel from last week.)On May !nh. 1840, Sam Houstonagain married, at Marion, Alabama,Margaret MoffottC Lea, a lady ofrare mental culture, endowmentsand force of character, who borehim four sons and four daughters.Houston's life was always full ofstorms, but at no period was he>-onf rooted willi more opposition anddenunciation than at the outbreakeif the Civil War, when he opposed?cession of the State of Texas,anel nowhere does his independenceof charcter loom up more resplend?ent than in this crisis. He foundin the ranks of his opponents manyof his o'.d friends and comrades andit made him very bitter. Houston's! sentiments were those I, as a boy,heard expressed often by so manyjin his native county at the simej period: "If we must tight, let ustlo it in thc Union, the flag is ours.I and the Inion is the product of thesacrifices! of J our forefathers."'Houston was against hasty and unconcerted action and could not reconoile to his mind the idea that oursafety demanded an immediate sep?aration from the government, erewe have stated our grievances or demantled redress. Houston ienoredthe Secessions! Convention of Texasand believed only the Legislature,? then in session, had the. power tci settle the matter in con troversHe refused to sign the Ordinance tif Secession which this conveotior? passed and to take an oath to sopf pe>rt the Constitution of the Confeelf erate States when ordered to .io st- in their presence. For this act htwas driven from power and hi>- lieutenant-governor. Kdward Clark- succeeded bim. When Clark en. terni tho executive iittiot* and .le- mended its archives. Houstonf wheeling slowly in his chair to facie bim, asked witb great deliberntioiand with that hauteur and scorn, c- which he was master. "What is yout name, sir'.''* They had been loni'political and personal friends.There was no doubt as to where hisympathy lay in the struggle be? tween the States. At the city e.n Houston in \r62, being invited tie? address a Confederate regiment i'?' which his son hail enlisted, he saieul I "While in the beginning 1 dilTertI- | with many of you, my feeling urK> interest are bound up in the cansls end while by reason of old ? e>..nex- 1 am too inrirm to enter the carn. ' paign myself, 1 offer my only see- I old enough to tight."ht I A distinguished senator of Texis has said of him, he was a man-h splendid presence, a popular orale eif the first order. No oue at ai>y ; pet iod of his career ic Texae ate proacbed bim on tbe bustingut When on the platform. Houston hed something of the individuality aian ; force of Benton, something of tnd audacity and majesty ol Dann:elt In personalties ne never askednd gave quarter, (Kio illustrationie-r [his was an assertion of whattho..<?ht of a distinguished formon friend in answer to n question ashelt him during one of his speeches. 1lb. I replied, "He has ali the chat-act.in- j istics of a dog except his fidel it]t's j While in Washington as sena'as in isr>4 Houston he-came greatlybs forested in Christianity, and on its return to Independence, IVxas,md united with the Baptiat tlenomiiof tie>n. of which his wife was a HMaal her, and ever afterwards livedI consistent Christian life, and uthis death was an active and devoihat. . ?member.0 iHouston died at his homo' Huntsville, Texas, on July 2'A l!>r* ll dust still reposes In tbs um ling I-cemetery in a j.r.ive Rihim,i uie.niiment, as laie. as 1 let ni, inr. i (Continued on page four)ARCELS POST WILLBENEFIT MANY CLASSES?/ill Provide Cheap TransportationFor Small PackagesProf. Joseph R. Tx*ng ot Washin^on and Lie University faculty,"onributed the following article underlate of March "nh to the Lynchburgsews:Editor of The News: I havo readwith interest the forceful letter ofMr, Craddock, republished in to?day's News, arguing against theparcels post. 1 am nersonally astrong advocate of thu parcels postand believe its establishment wv illbe immensely to the advantage ofthe country, even, in the end. to themerchants who are now opposing it.Congress, in my judgment, couldgive us no more useful legislationjust now than to establish an effect?ive parcels post. 1 will not attemptto answer Mr. Craddocks letier indetail, but cannot let pass one pointha urges in his letter to the effectthat, the activity ot the farm papersin favor of the parcels post is theresult of pressure brought to bearby the mail order houses throughthe use of advertising patronage. Hementions particularly the Southernfarm papers, but his argumentwould apply equally to all.Nuw, the Farm Journal, with acirculation of 750.'uni, is one of the\ most active advocates of the parcelsi post, and is a journal of the highestciass and above suspicion. In theMarch issue 1 bnd no mail order' house represented among the adver?tisers. Very few articles that canbe sent by mail except seedy are ad?vertised at all,and no merchants do?ing a general mail order businessI are found. In the Rural New YorkI er. another widely circulated farmand family journal of the highest! class, whic1: is equally strenuousj for the parcels post, and which car?ries a great deal of advertising, Ilind, in the February *J4tn issue,one' small adve-tisement from Mont?gomery. Ward ?, Co.. advertisingi mainly articles which cannot be! sent bv mail, such as gasoline en?gines and wire fencing, and anotherfrom Sears, Roebuck *!*: Co.. adver?tising vehicles. The Fruit Grower,probably the leading horticulturaljournal, is also working for the par?cels post, presumably being boughtby the Sears, Roebuck A Co., by a', small advertisement of vehicles inthe February issue, if Mr. Cradr dock's argument is sound.There seems to be only two class?es of citizens wno are actively op?posing the parcels post, the express? companies and the merchants.Si ,r ,\ ery truly yours,Jos. IX. Lomi.Not Sentiment But Businessn A few years ego one or two rail*; roads adopted the policy of employ111 ing no men addicted to drink. Theid ruie worked so well from the start'" that it has not only been continued^s in operation by the roads fir.-.t in?' augurating it but has been put injn forcesince by a number of the others, big railway systems. Now comes;*-s the report that a number of emp'oyoj ment agencies which find situationsor ' for thousands of boys and youngBJ men in the course of a year, haveP' announced a determination not toI**" secure a place for aoyone who doesad not tune a pledge Ut refraiu fromnd smoking cigarettes and tbe use ofnt I tobacco in any form.,D* This is not a sentimental policyOt but one bottomed upon sound bus*** iness reasons. Employers have a?*? material interest in securing, a'''' linht to demand, the maximum ofmo otTiiiein-y and reliability in their*???*> employees: and lhere is no sucess"' ful decying that these are most like?ly to be obtained from those who'or abjure strong drink and narcotics.in If the rues were put in general?*s operation in the business world, itl*e would do more to discourage theca- I formation of the cigarette and drink'??? habits than all the prohibitory lega islatien that has nant benn or ever?fi' will he devised. Norfolk Virginianted pt),-*The Clifton Forge Council hasJ*~ ratified Um purchase faf the Water' Works p int for 1189,0001, and areso'ut! ii "i - ? *r ?! ie,- ,*i2 tl,Ul.') ta***" p. r e.-..I li ...-I*. lt. ur.v.du tue purcha.se money, and toi make necessary improvements,sat->>tiie